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<h1>List of attributes ($ATTRIBUTE_LIST, 20h)</h1>

<p>The list of attributes is used when all file attributes do not fit into the base file record and so the file system has to place them in extra records. Index numbers of these extra file records are stored in the $ATTRIBUTE_LIST attribute in the base file records. </p>

<p>Attributes may not fit into a single file record in the following cases: 

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  <li>File contains many alternate names or hard links.</li>
  <li>File is heavily fragmented.</li>
  <li>File contains a very complicated security ID.</li>
  <li>File has many data streams (i.e. attributes of the $DATA type).</li>
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<p>Structure of the $ATTRIBUTE_LIST attribute (20h)</p>

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